The IBF has ordered Martin Bakole vs. Agit Kabayel to barter a struggle for a closing eliminator to find out a challenger for heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois’ world title.
#4 Kabayel (25-0, 17 KOs) has seemed excellent just lately, stopping Frank Sanchez within the seventh spherical final Might and Arslanbek Makhmudov within the fourth spherical final December in fights in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
These two victories for Kabayel have gained him loads of consideration from boxing followers as a result of he’s been combating largely in obscurity in lower-level contests in Germany throughout his 13-year skilled profession up till that time. It’s too dangerous that it’s taken this lengthy for Kabayel to lastly get notable fights to place him on the map as a result of he ought to have been combating the highest contenders years in the past.
Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) remains to be ready to seek out out whether or not Anthony Joshua will face him in a rematch. If AJ decides to struggle him once more, the rematch may occur in February.
Dubois knocked out Joshua within the fifth spherical in an enormous upset on September twenty first in entrance of a sold-out crowd at Wembley Stadium in London. It’s unlikely that Joshua will take the rematch with Dubois, given how one-sided their struggle was, and what he has at stake by shedding a second time.
#5 IBF Bakole (21-1, 16 KOs) is coming off a formidable fifth-round knockout win over extremely hyped American Jared Anderson on August third in a Riyadh season occasion on the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
Bakole, 31, dropped Anderson 3 times within the contest, knocking him down in rounds one and twice extra within the fifth earlier than the referee halted the struggle.
Kabayel is a significantly better fighter than Jared Anderson, and he is probably not so simply taken aside by Bakole. If Kabayel can grasp round lengthy sufficient to focus on the comfortable midsection of the 280+ lb Bakole, he could cease him as he did in opposition to Sanchez and Makhmudov.
